About Catherine
Catherine Baines is a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and has three years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She offers calm, straightforward support for people feeling stuck by stress, anxiety, depression or life changes. Catherine aims to make first steps feel less daunting and more manageable.
She helps people who are coping with grief and loss, relationship concerns, low self-esteem and motivation.
How Catherine works
Practical conversations focus on what is happening now and what small steps might help. Sessions are conversational and down-to-earth rather than full of jargon. Catherine creates an open space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgement.
She listens closely and responds with empathy and practical suggestions. The goal is to help each person find clearer ways to cope and move forward. Her wider interests include supporting people facing addiction, parenting strain, workplace stress, bipolar challenges, ADHD, and issues around intimacy and body image.
She also works with concerns such as chronic illness, bereavement near the end of life, and family of origin problems. Catherine uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to shape sessions around individual needs. She helps people weigh options, practise new responses and build small changes into daily life.
Her approach suits people looking for steady, practical support while they work towards clearer goals.
What Catherine works with
The areas below are the ones Catherine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches and online therapy options
Catherine draws on straightforward, evidence-based therapeutic techniques to support people through practical change. One approach focuses on identifying patterns that keep problems going and then testing small behavioural changes to break those cycles. This helps with anxiety, low mood and habit-driven difficulties like some addictions or sleeping problems.A second approach concentrates on grief and loss by creating space to name feelings and gradually build routines that restore daily functioning. It is useful for people facing bereavement, end-of-life caregiving or major life transitions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Catherine will talk through different options and help identify methods that match a person's goals, preferences and everyday demands. This is a collaborative process and can change as needs evolve.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow a face-to-face conversation when that feels helpful. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option or easier when a quick check-in fits a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short reflections, mood tracking and ongoing support between longer sessions.
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